Land Grants: Eigg Mountain Area (Eigg Mountain Settlement History)

(see Land Grant Petitions)

(see Making Claims to the Land)

(see feature codes for land grants)

(See measures, declinations)

 

The sources for land grants information are:

1) the land grant index map (Index Sheet no. 98) produced in 1953 (to see a copy of the map go to: http://novascotia.ca/natr/land/indexmaps/098.pdf).  On it are indicated:

-The name of the original grantee (usually)

-The book and page number of the original grant record [field called “Book” in the ArcView file “Land_Grants”]

-The grant index number (often) [field called “Index_numb.” In ArcView]

-The document reconveying land to the Crown (a number in a circle) [field called “Escheat” in ArcView]

2) The original grant records (listed below) which include:

-A surveyor’s description (in metes and bounds)

-A plan

-Name of the grantee

-Lists of the names of occupants of surrounding properties – these can be used to extend the dates of known tenure.  When the names are different from the grantees of those lands they indicate subsequent owners at the time of the described grant.

3) Deeds

-Indicating when land was transferred to new owners (these are often missing however since settlers often transferred ownership by handing the deed document to the new owner without notifying the land office)

 

Old Book 19, p. 112, 1792 [plan photo?]

Old Book 20, p. 63, 1799 [plan photo?]

Book A page 110 [missed]

-pg. 111 (Grant number 142) November 1810 [photo] (First line Arisaig)*

-pg. 142 (Grant number 111) March 22, 1811 [photo] (Second line McCara’s Brook)*

Book B, pg. 90 [missed]

Book F, pg. 137 (Grant Number 822 A and B), 1816 (Worthy) [record?]

-pg. 249 [record?]

-pg. 236 [record?]

Book G pg. 50 ,Dec 1816 [photo] (Tobin)*

-pg. 52, Jan 1816 [photo] (Fennel and Murphy, incidentally Burke and Doyle)*

-pg. 58, 14th of January 1817. [photo] (Manseau)*

-pg. 113, Oct 1817 [photo]*

Book L, pg. 74, Sept 1825 (#1375) [scan] (Alexander McDonald, John McIsaac, north)*

Book M, pg. 64, Jan 1828 (# 1447) [scan] (Gillis, first and second line)*

-pg. 135, May, 1828 (# 1525) [scan] (Mooneys)*

-pg. 136, May 1828 [scan] (MacDonalds, Smiths, too far to west)

-pg. 137, May 1828 (# 1548) [scan] (Duncan MacLaughlan, northeast corner)*

-pg. 144, May 1828 [scan] (Murdoch Campbell, far east)*

Book N, p. 86, Oct, 1828 [scan] (Malcolm MacKinnon, east)*

-pg. 96, Oct, 1828 [scan] (John MacGillivray, north)*

-pg. 130, Dec, 1828 [scan] (MacGillivarys east of Worthy)*

Book O, pg. 24, April, 1829 [scan] (Kickham, McCart [very interesting map])*

-pg. 45, 1829 [scan] O’Brien *

-pg. 55, Aug, 1829 [scan] MacGillivary’s (west - large plan including Mooneys)*

-pg. 57, Aug, 1829 [scan] (Gillis, MacDonalds, back settlement east)*

Book Q, pg. 34, May, 1834 (# 1982) [scan] (Angus Gillis (Ranald Fraser indicated)) *

Book R, pg. 52, July, 1833 [scan] (MacDonald, Back Settlement)*

Book 20

1854, #2728, p.248, Peter Gillis

1854, #2740, p.260, Angus MacDonald

1854, #2794, p.314, Peter Gillis

Book Grants, Sydney County 1854 to ?

-1858, #4151, p.21

-1858, #4359, p.32

-1859, #4576, Gillis, Angus

-1859, #4612, p.36

-1861, #5261, p.44

-1861, #5412, p.46

-1866, #7698, p.93

-1867, #7936, p.103

-1867, #8063, p.117

-18(?), #8292, p.129

-1868, #8545, p.141

Plan B-11-1, McLellan’s Brook, 1912(?)*

 

* Entered on map